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Pinter’s Funeral Is Held in London

The playwright Harold Pinter, who died on Dec. 24, was buried Wednesday at a private funeral service at the Kensal Green Cemetery in London, Agence-France Presse reported. Those in attendance included Pinter’s widow, Lady Antonia Fraser, as well as the playwright Tom Stoppard and the actor Michael Gambon. According to instructions left by Mr. Pinter, no prayers were said at the service, but mourners read from poems about his beloved sport of cricket, and Mr. Gambon read a passage from Mr. Pinter’s play “No Man’s Land.” “And so I say to you, tender the dead as you would yourself be tendered, in what you would describe as your life,” Mr. Gambon read, according to Agence-France Presse. Pinter’s agent, Judy Daish, said a memorial service would also be held.